Just days ago President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform met for the first time. At that meeting Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke expressed extreme concern over the effect of out-of-control government spending on the future of our nation’s struggling economy. Bernanke warned that “even after economic and financial conditions have returned to normal, in the absence of further policy actions, the federal budget appears set to remain on an unsustainable path.” This same message was previously delivered by Peter Orsza

In March and April of this year, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) made a couple of important announcements concerning the Agent Orange (AO) disability program. These included an announcement of the proposed rule published March 25 in the Federal Register stating that about 86,000 Vietnam War veterans, their surviving spouse or estate will be eligible for retroactive disability compensation from the VA – an average of 11.4 years for the veteran and 9.6 years for survivors.

Conventional wisdom in the nation’s capital right now is that Democrats are up against it in this fall’s elections and will probably lose a great many House seats and at least a few seats in the Senate.

Polling shows a very strong feeling against incumbents, but that feeling goes both ways, against Democrats and Republicans, too.

The party in power in the White House almost always loses Congressional seats in mid-term elections. It is no different this year.

The debate over a new healthcare reform plan that has been waged for over a year has finally resulted in a law.

Unfortunately the end of this debate did not yield bi-partisan results, and the law currently going forward will not likely survive the Supreme Court. There are a few reasons I do not support this final law, which are, among others: